Pilot Terminal Blog

Elevate your AirVenture experience by reserving a seat at the EAA Aviators Club, presented by Shell Aviation. The Aviators Club, located on the flightline adjacent to the Flightline Pavilion, is available only to EAA members and their guests.

EAA welcomes back the world's only privately owned flying BAE Sea Harrier F/A2 to AirVenture Oshkosh 2013, as Art Nalls will bring his showstopping VTOL jump jet to Wittman Regional Airport.

Hollywood blockbusters, a special pre-premiere screening, and fun aviation classics are among the films topping the lineup for this year's EAA Fly-In Theater, which is presented by Ford Motor Company.

As previously announced, the Texas Flying Legends Museum plans to bring an amazing collection of World War II aircraft to AirVenture this year and have them on display on Scotts Warbird Alley most of the week.

To allow more EAA members to attend their annual membership meeting at AirVenture, which is also our annual convention, EAA's annual meeting has been moved to Wednesday, July 31, at 8:30 a.m. at Theater in the Woods. The annual meeting had traditionally been held on Saturday morning at the fly-in.

Oshkosh is the home of aviation innovation, and this year EAA has established a new location to showcase new ideas, technologies, and products that advance aviation. Called the Innovations Pavilion, it will be located right in the middle of the show on Celebration Way. Aerospace innovators and entrepreneurs will display their designs and inventions in this gallery.

Attention women aviators and enthusiasts: WomenVenture at AirVenture will be held on Friday, August 2, including the annual Women in Aviation International Connect Breakfast, the traditional photo on Philips 66 Plaza, and new for 2013, the WomenVenture Power Lunch.

EAA AirVenture Cup Race officials announced a new starting point - Mount Vernon (Illinois) Airport (MVN) - for the 2013 AirVenture Cup Race, scheduled for Sunday, July 28. Also announced this week was the addition of several new aircraft classes to allow even more aviators to participate in this fun competition prior to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013.

The EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) is now available for download.

As many EAAers know, country music legend Aaron Tippin is a multiengine- and instrument-rated pilot, A and P, and a helicopter pilot. He's joining the Little Toot airplane family as he and Tommy Meyer, son of Little Toot designer George Meyer, are partnering to bring back the airplane to its proper place in aviation history.